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Originally Posted by mprmke
The M-Sport Engine is also way off the pace I think. Cook shone due to the weather, but if that car had the Honda engine, I think he'd have had a much stronger Donington and sailed to pole at Brands Hatch.
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There doesn't seem to be much difference between the BTC Honda and the Dynamics Honda - they seem to be performing about as you'd expect - Cook and Shedden looking quickest, then Rowbottom and Plato with Edwards bringing up the rear.
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Originally Posted by mprmke
For all the talk of Sutton being nowhere, he's 3rd in the Championship, above Hill, Turkington, Shedden, Butcher, Cammish, Lloyd and the Ciceley BMW's, all of whom seem to have taken more Plaudits than Sutton.
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Agreed, people seem to suggest he's not doing very well but he's picking up points steadily and as you say is above some of those that have been getting rave reviews for their performances.
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Originally Posted by mprmke
Plato has been desperately unlucky and has gone far better than his 10 results have suggested. He'll be gutted to finally get into a Honda, only for it not to have a Honda engine, but still doing OK. A puncture spoiled what would have been surely at least 3 top 10 finishes at Donington. Mechanical failure put him 22nd on the grid yesterday, and after being ran out wide at the first corner to put him even further down the order, he recovered well. Then in race 2 he climbed up to 11th before coming off worse in a 4 car battle and ended up finishing 13th, when he would have been 12th at worst, which would have put him on pole for race 3, for tiny margins between a potential brilliant result and being stuck down in the pack and making an error for a DNF in Race 3. With better luck, he would have been somewhere between Butcher and Thompson in the standings now, comfortably, so he's doing ok and has been very unlucky for mee.
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That's a very generous assessment - look at it another way, he damaged his car (damper failure - smacking kerbs too hard?) that resulted in a bad grid slot, made a mistake at the start of the first race and ran wide losing places, made some progress in race 2 then binned it on his own in race 3. A pretty poor weekend really. Has to be said I expected more from him in that car - maybe he'll pick up once he's got a few more miles under his belt in it.